A BUSINESS park unit at Rodden Farm, Weymouth is expected to be subdivided to create smaller industrial units.

Dorset Council has agreed to allow the changes which the owners said would improve the viability of the site.

The application asked for the creation of four smaller units for industrial use, storage or distribution. It has been reduced in size from an initial application for five units.

Chesil Bank parish council has objected to the changes claiming it would intensify the use of the site to the “detriment of the environment and local amenity” with additional traffic on narrow lanes.

The parish council said it was also concerned about added pressure on the drainage system and that the Rodden Brook, which flows to the Fleet Lagoon, could become polluted.

A report to Dorset Council concluded that the risk of fluvial and surface water flooding from the site are low and there have been no records of any previous flooding incidents. The council’s highways team said in their view the additional units would not represent a significant intensification of the site and said that sub-dividing one unit was likely to lead to smaller, rather than larger vehicles, accessing the site via Rodden Lane.